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A Look Inside Calone’s Campaign Expenditures By Matt Meduri After Labor Day’s unofficial kickoff of the campaigns, September now sees the action fully commence as doorknockings, fundraisers, and campaign appearances will consume local and social media from now until Election Day. The Messenger intends to keep up with the candidates on the campaign trail as best as we can. We have also introduced a forecast for this year’s elections for Suffolk County Legislature, Town Supervisors, and Town Council races where applicable. As of our current forecast, the GOP is poised to pick up two Legislative seats and Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine (R-Center Moriches) appears to be in the driver’s seat in the County Executive race.
The race for the open County Executive seat continues to head the top of the ticket this year. The result of this race could have down ballot effects on all other races across the county. Both major candidates, Supervisor Romaine and Dave Calone (D-Setauket) have recently aired their first campaign advertisements on television and social media. While Ed Romaine is well-known across Suffolk County from his two stints representing the North Fork in the Legislature, to serving as County Clerk, and most recently as Brookhaven Town Supervisor since 2012, his opponent, Dave Calone, is less known within the lines of Suffolk. The Messenger examined Calone donations and expenditures. The July campaign finance reports show Calone with $2.3 million cash on hand and Romaine with $1.5 million.
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By Diane Caudullo What started with a vision for the Middle Country community has come to fruition. In 2008, then-Suffolk County Legislator Brian Beedenbender (D) heard the concerns of many constituents that the area has been lacking decent sports fields for neighborhood kids. Brian started the idea of purchasing fields behind Grace Presbyterian Church on Hawkins Road in Selden. The church also owns the fields. He worked in tandem with Town Councilwoman Kathy Walsh to get this partnership started between the Town of Brookhaven and Suffolk County to create a few new fields. After Tom Muratore (R-Ronkonkoma) took the Suffolk County seat in 2010 and hired Kevin LaValle (R-Selden) as his Chief of Staff, this vision grew tenfold. The Wedge, a beautiful, multi purpose park in Mount Sinai, had recently been unveiled leaving Centereach and Selden residents wondering if something similar could be done. LaValle was then tasked by Legislator Muratore to see if there was a property that would be appropriate for such an undertaking. LaValle saw that there was an enormous parcel of land between the Grace Presbyterian Church and an existing small town park known as Veterans Field on Boyle Road. The park was owned by the school district.
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Candidate Spotlight: Nick Caracappa Page 13
Jesse Garcia Re-Elected Suffolk GOP Chair Page 21
Photo credit: Diane Caudullo
It’s a Game Changer in Middle Country!